A commemorative offset lithograph titled Handley Page Halifax S-Sugar W1048 by the aviation artist Chris Golds. The print depicts the four-engine bomber in flight over a Norwegian fjord during a night raid on the German battleship Tirpitz, with its starboard outer engine engulfed in flames. Below the image is a printed narrative block detailing the mission on 27 April 1942 involving RAF 10, 35, and 76 Squadrons, the aircraft’s crash landing on Lake Hoklingen, and its eventual recovery by a team in 1973. The work is signed and dated within the print plate at the lower right Chris Golds ’82. The piece is presented in a glazed, silver-toned metal frame with a cream-coloured mount.
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